# 商法 / Commercial Code — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-3. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 商法 (Commercial Code), 明治三十二年法律第四十八号 - English title "Commercial Code": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（議決権なき株式に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4131-128/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-128/art-3 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三条（議決権なき株式に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures on Shares Without Voting Rights caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4131-128/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-128/art-3 **第一項** この法律の施行の際定款に旧商法第二百四十二条第一項の規定により議決権がないものとされた種類の株式についての定めがある場合は、当該種類の株式に関しては、この法律の施行後も、なお従前の例による。ただし、同条第三項の規定は、適用しない。 suppl-4131-128/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-128/art-3/par-1 If, at the time this Act comes into effect, the articles of incorporation contain a provision on a class of shares that has been made shares without voting rights pursuant to Article 242, paragraph (1) of the Former Commercial Code, the provisions then in force continue to govern that class of shares even after this Act comes into effect; provided, however, that paragraph (3) of that Article does not apply. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の種類の株式は、新商法第二百二十二条第五項及び第六項の規定の適用については、同条第四項に規定する議決権制限株式とみなす。 suppl-4131-128/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-128/art-3/par-2 For the application of Article 222, paragraphs (5) and (6) of the Amended Commercial Code, the class of shares in the preceding paragraph is deemed to be shares with restricted voting rights prescribed in paragraph (4) of that Article. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4131-128/art-3/par-2: 前項 → 商法 附則第三条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)), suppl-4131-128/art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-128/art-3/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 商法 附則第三条第二項（議決権なき株式に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/commercial-code/suppl-4131-128/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/132AC0000000048/suppl-4131-128/art-3/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 商法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/132AC0000000048/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Commercial Code — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4293/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch commercial-code-20261105T141039-011, translated 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 商法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05